FINALLY got off my over worked, under motivated buttocks and got this thing finished up....a big thanks to Chris (rcadd1ct) for the help sorting the radio out, Craig Oku and his brother for the paint on the canopy, and Mark C (THE Professor) on the shakedown flights.....

yeea, nice paint !!, it's not over done,,

Jim Buzz Buzz Buzz

Hey James. Is that a fail safe regulator? If not it will fail where that switch is mounted as it will fill up with fuel. If it is a fial safe, cut off the switch and make a jumper to turn it off. The switch will get loaded with fuel and leave your heli on one day.
Is Chris (rcadd1ct) that same guy I met in florida?

Nice setup. One quick comment. Is that a "Revolution" brand base loaded antenna? If so I'd strongly suggest you dump it. Even if it isn't, unless you've done some mods to it internally, don't use it.

The problem is, where the small white wire (antenna) goes into the base, it is soldered onto (whatever the required electrical gizmo is) and THAT solder point is a point of failure. I've had two fail on me. If you wanted to fix it, remove the end cap (you'll have to cut with an exacto knife) and epoxy the electrical gizmo and the antenna wire so that it is held in place with epoxy and can't break.

It seems that there is room for some movement inside and with Heli Vibration it just breaks. Then what happens is you get intermittant connections. Your radio check is great, but in the right orientation you'll loose connection.

I have had no problems from my revolution ant. I even run them on G3 receivers. Only issues I had is after I crash but that $10 ant. is the least of my worries.

Rodney, glad that you haven't had a problem but I think the design is defective. When you pry off the small end cap you'll see that there is some space between where the end cap is and the end of the inductor where the antenna is soldered. This gives the inductor room to move back and forth and when this starts to happen it can break the solder joint. The solution would be to epoxy the darn thing in there.

As stated, I've had TWO of these fail, one on a 30 size and one on a 50 size. I was getting glitching on my 30 size (running PPM) and the only way I found it was when I picked up the heli I heard something move and I finally tracked it down to my antenna. I figured this was just a fluke. On my 50 size I was having weird problems. I could get it idleing fine, then as I slowly increased the throttle it would go into failsafe for a moment, then back into normal. I just couldn't figure it out. But on a hunch I then checked the antenna and sure enough it was rattling and broken as well.

I would urge everyone who owns a revolution antenna to either throw it away or pry off the cap on the end and epoxy it back it so that there cannot be any movement and the solder joint cannot break.

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It has never been an issue for me with the Predator Carbon Max. And it is not that much different than the Freestyle. So I don't think it would be that much of a difference with that model either. The Vigor CS and Vibe are the same way. And they seem to do fine. So I don't think it is an issue.